“...just played text based adventure games like Zork...”
LOVED Zork. My wife and I would play that game every evening after we got off work. We got all but 3 points, I think, from Zork I. Never could get the thing (key?) out of that egg without breaking it, and losing the egg points.
Beware the lurking grues!
You had to let the thief (Pick-pocket?) steal the egg, he opened it and got out what was in it (key or jewel?) and then you had to find the thief and kill him to get it back.